lupus

I was really hoping to avoid preterm labor during this pregnancy since I’ve been working hard at resting and incubating at home. Unfortunately my lupus has just been quite active during this whole pregnancy… Last Saturday (a little over a week ago) I went into preterm labor at 32w4d. Luckily this was a already a fewRead more

This is not one of those exciting finishes that really warrants a blog post- but it does cause you to have that internally satisfied feeling when you are done. My husband bought some new jeans (and had some old jeans that we never hemmed) that needed some attention. So, I hemmed jeans, assembly line style….Read more

I’m 25 weeks pregnant and am officially incubating full time. This pregnancy started out pretty low key. I hardly had any morning sickness (as compared to little Miss Mila), which is how I actually knew we were going to have a boy this time– always trust a mama’s intuition! Near the end of my first trimester myRead more

Blogging has been a little harder than I anticipated since Mila joined our family. I don’t know where the time goes… before I know it, it’s nighttime again and I’m trying to get just a few hours of sleep at a time. But it’s all so worth it. Mila joined our family on July 8thRead more

Well, baby girl has gotten comfortable and continues to grow inside! After our pre-term labor scare at 31 weeks, we are so happy to make it to 35 weeks. At this point she isn’t obligated to go to the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) and if she can hang in a little longer, she canRead more

Things had been plugging along pretty uneventfully until the past few days. I was still working full time and had noticed that I was definitely more tired at the end of my long days. My biggest problem was sleep. Between congestion, tossing and turning, and insomnia– I wasn’t getting any. By Friday I was exhausted.Read more

I’ve been home from the hospital for one week now. Last week I was hospitalized for two days with placental bleeding and a lupus flare. It was extremely scary. The good- most important- news is that baby is OK! I’ll have to admit that I have had more “excitement” during my pregnancy than I wasRead more

I have several projects in the works with fun posts coming up, but thought I would write about something that has been on my mind a lot lately. I’m losing my hair. Every morning when I brush my hair I am losing handfuls of it. Then during the day it continually sheds all over everything.Read more

This is a post I have been pondering for a long time. In my first post after being diagnosed with lupus I described it as that weird disease that is almost impossible to diagnose. Remember how Dr. House always says: “It’s never lupus?” Whenever the younger doctors had a medical case they couldn’t figure outRead more

9,726: the number of visits I have had on my blog in one year. I have nothing to compare this to since this is my only blog and it’s my first year. But it kind of sounds like a lot of views. And it’s really close to 10,000. Last year, today, I posted my first blogRead more

About Me

I am a primary care physician in Orange County, CA. I spend my days healing others, but am careful to take care of myself as I navigate my way through life while living with Lupus. I'm also busy loving my two mini's and my amazing husband.